The devil's own luck: from Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic

Although strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944-45.

He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a bed to sleep in nor a hot meal to go home to.

This is warfare in the raw ' brutal, yet humorous, immensely tragic, but sadly, all true.